AC3 Audio

Are there any plans for future support of AC3 decoding on the Wowza trancoder? As it stands I have to take my live streams in and transcode the audio to a compatible format before redirecting through Wowza, this is less than ideal. If you do not have plans for AC3 support is there a developer's kit for adding that functionality ourselves?

Set-top boxes might be connected to "surround sound" speaker deployments (5.1, 4.1, 7.1, for examples) -- and for them get the "surround sound" from the dolby digital stream (AC3), we will need either support for AC3 streams from wowza for "AC3 passthru" -- or some way to transcode to at least 4 channels of AAC (if that is even possible).

This isn't just theoretical, either -- I have a stream from an hdhomerun that is handing me AC3 audio, which wowza is not accepting.

(Yes, I can transcode it with ffmpeg or vlc -- but we're trying to avoid pre-transcoding streams as much as possible.)

Thank you for the details and your interest in Wowza Transcoder. This helps us better understand your workflow and I will pass this additional information on to our product management team. I still don't have an update on when this may be available.